We Need a national IT Disaster Response Plan

ORLANDO, Fla.  Looking back at Hurricane Katrina, Steve Cooper, the Red Cross senior vice president and chief information officer, said he realized that such catastrophes require a national information technology response plan. But the federal government should not lead it, he said.I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government, Cooper said last week in his keynote address at the Information Processing Interagency Conference 2006 here.